Sen. Ernie Otten
Total votes
2,196
all sessions
Attendance
93%
135 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
89%
of cast votes
Higher than 85% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
7%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 89% of chamber peers
Sponsored
274
bills & resolutions
Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Committees
8
assignments
2,196 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
1,723
voted in favor
Nay
320
voted against
Absent
135
missed votes
Total cast
2,196
across all sessions
Crossed party
208
votes against own party
This page
2,196
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 49
make an appropriation for the site preparation of a prison facility for offenders committed to the Department of Corrections, to transfer moneys to the incarceration construction fund, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
57–11
Feb 29, 2024
SB 1
expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors.
Yea
Passed
59–8
Feb 29, 2024
HB 1225
define a multi-passenger quadricycle and to provide for the regulation of multi-passenger quadricycles.
Yea
Passed
61–6
Feb 29, 2024
SB 72
increase the annual limit of tax credits that an insurance company may claim through the partners in education tax credit program.
Yea
Passed
56–12
Feb 28, 2024
HB 1187
create a one-year career and technical education instructor educator permit.
Yea
Passed
69–0
Feb 28, 2024
SB 199
revise provisions pertaining to the consolidation or boundary changes of counties. Against party
Nay
Passed
63–4
Feb 28, 2024
HB 1195
provide authority for a court to order offenders convicted of vehicular homicide to pay restitution to a victim's children until age eighteen.
Yea
Passed
68–1
Feb 28, 2024
HB 1125
prohibit the chemical modification or conversion of industrial hemp and the sale or distribution of chemically modified or converted industrial hemp and to provide a penalty therefor.
Yea
Passed
68–1
Feb 28, 2024
SB 66
make an appropriation for eligible water, wastewater, and storm water projects throughout state government, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
68–0
Feb 28, 2024
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